Do Americans differ in their willingness to ride in a driverless bus?
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine a person’s willingness to ride (WTR) in an autonomous bus. Across two studies, we presented participants with hypothetical scenarios about riding in a driverless city or inter-city bus. We manipulated who was onboard the bus (participant, romantic partner, or child), the location of the bus (seven different countries), and the type of driver (human or driverless). In Study 1, participants were less willing to ride a driverless city bus compared to one driven by a human driver. In Study 2, participants’ WTR scores were influenced by participant gender, the person on board, and location, with scores dropping dramatically when the bus was located outside of the USA, or when a child was on board. The current data suggest that Americans are not entirely ready for driverless buses, mainly when someone they care about is on board, or the bus is located outside the USA.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it